Solo ads can be good. They can also be a waste of money. On paper, you have a squeeze page... a great free offer... you get opt-ins... and create a relationship with them. Then, you can promote offers. Or, some marketers get right to the promoting. There's no "right" way to do it... some people have success some ways, other people have it other ways, and many fail doing both.

I have just signed up to Russell Brunson's Dot Com Secrets X where basically Russell recomends driving traffic to squeeze pages through Solo ads.

In this course Russell recommends driving traffic through FREE solo ads but surely it can't be that easy can it.

I am new to internet marketing but common sense tells me nothing is ever that easy...Am I right or should I listen to Russell and put all my hopes on people click on my FREE ads?????

Hey

I am on Russells program as well, into the second month now. While free solo ads sound good, I found them pretty useless. You want to build a list and legit customers, then I would strongly advise you to go for paid solo ads. I actually made a sale with my first ad that I sent out.

You may have realised when you signed up for free solo ads that your inbox is now inundated with rubbish that you will not read. Your solo ad will be one in someone else's inbox which they will not read.

So definitely use paid solo ads. By the way, Russell's program is good, and you will learn a ton. But I have found that a lot of the information is here on the forum.

Also, another word of advice - your signature box has a hop link that promotes an affiliate product. It appears the domain that the link is attached to has expired. I would recommend you not use hop links here on the forum, but cloak them or link to a product you are reviewing or to your blog or something like that. Check out my blog internet-moneystrategies[dot]com to see what I am talking about.

Don't waste your time with what is essentially a traffic exchange, as mentioned above you are just mailing to each other and no one makes money but the guy that sold you the dream.

There are a lot of free methods that you can use to build your list and make sales. Put some videos on Youtube and link to your squeeze page. Youtube is an excellent source for targeted leads if you optimize your video correctly.

I've never used free solo ads, but I'd treat them the same way I treat most things you get for free that promise the earth - you get what you pay for; in this case, an inbox full of spam, from what I've read here.

I've tried a couple of paid solo ads and managed to build a small list, which seems to be pretty much comatozed! The ROI wasn't what I'd hoped for, but I may give it another go once I've recouped my losses so far. It's generally regarded as one of the quickest ways to build a list and it worked form that standpoint - now I just need them to do something!!

If you thinking to make money , solo ads might not the best choice because you in tight budget and it better use it for other ways to get traffic which is niche and targeted.
Smart use of the budget because solo ads maybe able to help you get traffic but it not a real best way to start with limited of budget.

If you go with free solo ads you have to do massive volume. Really it is garbage traffic but you can get subscribers to your list this way. It is a waste of time though unless you automate the process... PM me for details

When you get to about 2-3,000 subscribers you can find quality people in your niche and do ad swaps with them. At this point you're cooking with gas so to speak. You're really gonna go into overdrive now!

I find people with good niche lists on ClickBank. I just go to the marketplace and find people with medium gravity products and contact the site owners to do a swap or some sort of mutual list building with them.

Here's another cool tactic to find sites in your Niche once you've established your list of a few thousands - go to google.com/adwords - type in niche keywords into the 'Placement Tool' - it will pop up sites that run AdSense.

You can either advertise on those sites through Google Content network or just contact the site owners or figure out which ones take guest blogs and get more niche traffic to build your list.

Some of those sites will also have large newsletters/mailing lists - again, more people to partner up with!

You've given lots of great ideas, but I'd like to focus on one that I just put a thread up about in the General Discussion.

Where are the JV Giveaway Events? I just joined one, but they're so hard to find these days. I hear people say they're no good b/c you just get a list of freebie seekers, but isn't that the case whenever we give a free enticement for an optin? I do it all day on my blog and get subscribers on my list all the time from that, but I have to work the list, stick with the quality folks and ditch the others. Why should the Giveaway subscribers be anything different than this? in your opinion.

Free solo ads are mean for members who looking for
Free traffic and is difficult converting it into sale, paid solo ad
Or paid traffic provide you with targeted visitors,then you can easily
Promote your products to them.

Anyway, I have to agree that even buying them isn't a sure fire way to guarantee instant success as you have to consider where the list has come from, are they even going to send you the numbers or whether they use a third party and drive visitors to your offer that way.

If you have a budget to play with then look at Safe-Swaps.com and test until you find where you are at with your conversions etc and go from there.

Also, I think one thing that is always overlooked when building a list with solo ads is that the subscribers you generate from solo ads are inevitably going to be on 20+ other internet marketers' lists on most occasion.

This is not in itself a bad thing...it just means that you better have a compelling offer & a system that enables you to stand out from the crowd...because a lot of these people probably get 30 emails a day from internet marketers.

I've never had any great success with solo ads, sure I was building big lists but they were full of freebie seekers and very, very unresponsive.

Sure you might have different experience to me but whatever you do make sure you track your results and know your numbers. If everything is converting well and you're seeing an income stream developing then Rinse & Repeat but if this is not the case then you'll have to know when to call it and move on to something else.

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